Women's Literary Education, 1690-1850 / edited by Jessica Lim and Louise Joy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Jessica (Jessica Wen Hui), editor.

Joy, Louise, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education.

Women.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and profoundly significant ways in which female literary artists interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice. The volume recreates the plurality and non-linearity of the conversations and forms of literary expression that took place in and through this body of educational writing. Literature and education in the long eighteenth-century share certain perceived aims: the transmission of knowledge, strengthening of understanding, acculturation, and sometimes empowerment. They also share structural forms: lessons; conversations; letters; dramatizations; confessions; narratives; imitations; sometimes fantasies. In the long eighteenth-century, authors of literary texts were often authors of educational treatises who saw their activities in both spheres as interrelated. As such, the parties of teacher and pupil, author and reader frequently overlap. This book provides a historically sensitive understanding of the fraught relations between these parties, drawing attention to the period's debates about authority and freedom as they relate to matters of gender, race, religion, age, and class. This project provides a nuanced understanding of women's literary contributions to the period's strands of educational thought, enabling us to better understand the many and complicated ways in which authors and readers of the period envisaged that literary texts might fulfil, fail, or refuse to fulfil, educational functions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I Moulding Forms

Chapter 1 Important Familial Conversations: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Sarah Trimmer and Ellenor Fenn

Chapter 2 Reading Poetry for Children in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Women Writing Geography Texts, 1790-1830

Chapter 4 'What follows': Maria Edgeworth's Works for Older Children

Part II Acknowledging the Past

Chapter 5 Desire and Performative Masquerade in L.E.L's and E.B.B.'s Classical Translations

Chapter 6 'Wisdom consists in the right use of knowledge': Socrates as a Symbol of Quaker Pedagogy in Maria Hack's Grecian Stories

Chapter 7 Bluestocking Epistolary Education: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot

Part III Responding to the Present

Chapter 8 Laughing to Learn: Sarah Fielding's Life Lessons

Chapter 9 Emotional Regulation: Jane Austen, Jane West and Mary Brunton

Chapter 10 Staging Women's Education in Two Anti-Jacobin Novels: More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Hawkins' Rosanne: or, A Father's Labour Lost (1814)

Part IV Shaping the Future

Chapter 11 Pedagogy as (Cosmo)Politics: Cultivating Benevolence in Mary Wollstonecraft's Educational Works

Chapter 12 'The enemy of imagination'? Re-imagining Sarah Trimmer and Her Fabulous Histories

Chapter 13 A Literary Life: A Transatlantic Tale of Vivacity, Rousing Curiosity and Engaging Affection

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9781474497374

1474497373

9781474497367

1474497365

OCLC:

1367327013